Of All the Things I Wished for...
A Harry Potter Fanfic by Rachel Jones
All characters and concepts of the Wizarding World, except for Riya and Aleia, belong to J.K. Rowling, and this is not intended as infringement on her rights. It's just fanfiction. Oh yes, and this is gonna have some majorly fluffy romance scenes, so if you don't like that, stop reading.^_^ This is a Ron/Hermione, Draco/Riya(my character), Snape/McGonagall(In the books she has BLACK hair so she has to be in her 30's or 40's in normal people-years.Thanks to Rissa for telling me that wizards age slowly,and that she's older than she seems...Still,don't understand the choice of actress for her in the movie...) Lupin/Aleia(my other character), Harry/Ginny, and any other couples I happen to think of.^_^ Yes, I LIKE romance stories. But only fantasy ones.^_^ Oh,yeah...and Snape is NOT the bad guy here...things will look up for him in the next chapter, I promise.^_^
Draco Malfoy sighed, bored completely out of his wits. It was his 6th year in Hogwarts, yet all of today's Advanced Transfiguration lesson seemed freakily familiar. As if he'd learned it all before.
"Mr.Malfoy, will you PLEASE pay attention!" Snapped Professor McGonagall. "5 points from Slythirin!" Draco sighed again, but tried to appear, at least, to be paying attention to the class. When the class ended, Draco was immensily grateful, and once in his common room, he fell asleep instantly.
The next day, Albus Dumbledore called everyone to the Hall, and began a speech. As he droned on, Draco felt his eyelids droop...until a girl stepped out onto the platform, standing demurely beside Dumbledore. "This is Riya Callaghan. She is from Ireland, and her parents have homeschooled her until now. However, this year, she lost her family to Voldemort, and has come to stay with us."
At the mention of her family, the girl's emerald eyes teared up slightly, but she ran a hand through her auburn hair and gave a slight smile. Draco felt his heartbeat speed up.
Dumbledore continued. "She has been placed in Gryffindor." All the Gryffindors cheered. Draco felt his heart plummet. His father would kill him if he knew that Draco was attracted to a Gryffindor.
Meanwhile, at the Gryffindor table...
"Hullo!" Yelled Fred or George, nobody could tell which at the moment. Too much excitement.
Ron rolled his eyes, and Hermione smiled encouragingly at the slender, pale girl before them. "So, you're from Ireland? That's pretty interesting. Most of us here are only part of some other blood. Like half Irish or half Welsh. You know."
Riya half-heard the welcomes of the enthusiastic Gryffindors, and attempted a smile, while her grass-hued eyes scanned the room for the pair of silvery ones she'd seen upon her earlier. And she found them. At the Slytherin table, a slim boy with silver-white hair and silver eyes was watching her. He was handsome, quite good-looking, she thought, if he'd just wipe that smirking scowl off his pale face. She wondered who he was.
Ginny, following Riya's line of vision, whispered. "That's Draco Malfoy. Harry's worst enemy-except for You-Know-Who- and a Slytherin...you probably'll want to stay away from HIM."
Riya simply gave a smile and a nod to the hyper redhead, thinking to herself,'Enemy? Stay away from him? But...to me, he just looks rather...lonely...Yes, decidedly lonely.' She thought for a moment, and hoped that she'd have a class with him, to become better acquainted, perhaps. She grinned inwardly at the thought. She was willing to bet that he was nicer than he seemed.
Draco realized, his heartbeat speeding up slightly, that he had a class with Riya next! Double Andvanced Potions...
As Riya stepped into the room with the rest of the Gryffindors, her heartbeat sped up as a silver-blonde head caught her eye. She wanted to say hello, but the hate-filled glances her fellows threw the Slytherins told her she'd better not-just yet. However, she was in luck-Snape, the Potions teacher, was apparently acting oddly. He was being particularly nice, even to the point of ignoring several Gryffindor mistakes! To Riya's delight, the Gryffindors were so worked up over this unusual behavior that they were clustered in groups, heated discussions speculating reasons for this oddity so absorbing them that they didn't even blink an eye when Riya walked over to Draco's table.
"Hi! I saw you earlier in the Great Hall...Your name is Draco Malfoy, right? I saw you watching me... Why were you watching me?" She asked, smiling at him.
Draco's eyes widened slightly, and his brain went into overdrive, heartrate speeding up slightly. His brain ran through answers he could give. 'Well,I can't just say what I feel, can I? Imagine the look on everyone's face if I said what I feel! I can see myself, 'Well, I was watching you because I thought you were beautiful, and I'd love to snog you, but my father would kill me if he knew that I even considered snogging a Gryffindor, so I just watched you instead.' He opened his mouth, but, before he could say something witty, he spilled all of the bat's blood down his robes. Flushing brightly, he realized he had caused all of Gryffindor to look at him-and the looks weren't pretty.
In all the new commotion going on, Riya slipped away, giving Draco a small smile before anyone could see, and pretending she'd never been over there to begin with.
However, her hopes of not being confronted about it were dashed when, that evening, Ginny confronted Riya right in front of the Portrait of the Fat Lady.
"Were you associating with Draco Malfoy in Double Potions? It's all over the school! And-He's Harry's ENEMY! Really...you aren't being very Gryffindor-like..." She gave Riya a I-Hope-It's-Just-A-Rumor sort of look.
Riya sighed. "Yes, I was talking to him. And he's Harry's RIVAL, not enemy, Ginny...there's a difference." At Ginny's appalled look, she rolled her eyes slightly. "If you MUST know, I think he looks very lonely. I only want to be friends, Ginny, and..."
She was cut off by laughter from Ginny." L-Lonely? Draco'd kill you if he knew you thought he was lonely! Just...take my word for it...We're friends, right? I don't want you to get hurt, and Draco's famous for hurting..." Ginny turned and entered the Gryffindor Common Room.
Riya sighed. She didn't care what people thought, she was going to be Draco's friend if it killed her. She turned, whispered the password, and went into the Common Room after Ginny.
After Riya left, Draco stepped softly out from the shadows. 'She...thinks I am lonely? Am I lonely? Even If I am, father will kill me if I so much as look at her with anything other than a sneer and hard eyes...' Confused about his emotions and his loyalty to his father, he walked towards his own Common Room, realizing that he was doing something his father would disown him-or worse-for...falling for a Gryffindor, someone against the Master his father served...
Elsewhere, another confused person wandered the Halls of Hogwarts. A tall, slender woman with long firey hair and ocean-blue eyes stepped uncertainly up to the door of Remus Lupin's office. Lupin had been the Defense Against The Dark Arts teacher since the year before, when Dumbledore had called him back to the school. She smoothed her gossamer, shimmery green robes, then softly, knocked at the door. It was opened almost immediately by Lupin. Had any of his students seen him, they would have been stunned. His hair was carefully combed, and instead of the rather shabby teacher's robes he normally wore, he was resplendent in deep crimson robes of a velveteen material. He looked younger, but nervousness played across his features.
"A-Aleia...you came!" He nearly whispered, as if amazed.
"Remus...Did you really think I wouldn't? Simply because I was a Sltherin and you a Gryffindor in our Hogwarts days, doesn't mean I didn't care for you." Tears welled in her eyes, sparkling in the flickering light.
The nervousness vanished from Remus's voice and expression. Suddenly, he reached out and embraced the woman.
She smiled and hugged him back, eyes closing, tears splashing down her cheeks onto the stone floor.
"They couldn't make me stop loving you, for all that my parents hated Gryffindors, especially you...They never could stop me...and I am grown, now, Remus. They can never stop me now." She whispered.
He nodded, and stroked her hair affectionately. "I know. Nobody can stop us ever again, I promise. But...if we don't want some night-wandering students to see us and be somewhat shocked, we'd better go inside."
She grinned and laughed softly. "You are right as always, Remus..." She released him from her grip, but took his hand and allowed him to lead her into his office and shut the door...
Severus Snape stepped quietly out from behind a nearby tapestry. He'd been heading to his office when he'd heard footsteps-Aleia. Aleia...he remembered her well. In Potions, he'd always tried to share a table with her...but he hadn't been blind. Obliviousness hadn't overcome him, and he had seen the way she'd watched the Gryffindor-Remus Lupin. Tonight had proved, yet again, that Remus enjoyed taking away anything he could from Snape. Not that Aleia had ever been Snape's, but her parents had expected her to fall for the studious Slytherin, not the rambunctious, joke-filled Remus Lupin. Not the werewolf. He cursed inwardly, and began to walk back towards his office, anger clouding his own thoughts.
To Be Continued...
A Harry Potter Fanfic by Rachel Jones
All characters and concepts of the Wizarding World, except for Riya and Aleia, belong to J.K. Rowling, and this is not intended as infringement on her rights. It's just fanfiction. Oh yes, and this is gonna have some majorly fluffy romance scenes, so if you don't like that, stop reading.^_^ This is a Ron/Hermione, Draco/Riya(my character), Snape/McGonagall(In the books she has BLACK hair so she has to be in her 30's or 40's in normal people-years.Thanks to Rissa for telling me that wizards age slowly,and that she's older than she seems...Still,don't understand the choice of actress for her in the movie...) Lupin/Aleia(my other character), Harry/Ginny, and any other couples I happen to think of.^_^ Yes, I LIKE romance stories. But only fantasy ones.^_^ Oh,yeah...and Snape is NOT the bad guy here...things will look up for him in the next chapter, I promise.^_^
Draco Malfoy sighed, bored completely out of his wits. It was his 6th year in Hogwarts, yet all of today's Advanced Transfiguration lesson seemed freakily familiar. As if he'd learned it all before.
"Mr.Malfoy, will you PLEASE pay attention!" Snapped Professor McGonagall. "5 points from Slythirin!" Draco sighed again, but tried to appear, at least, to be paying attention to the class. When the class ended, Draco was immensily grateful, and once in his common room, he fell asleep instantly.
The next day, Albus Dumbledore called everyone to the Hall, and began a speech. As he droned on, Draco felt his eyelids droop...until a girl stepped out onto the platform, standing demurely beside Dumbledore. "This is Riya Callaghan. She is from Ireland, and her parents have homeschooled her until now. However, this year, she lost her family to Voldemort, and has come to stay with us."
At the mention of her family, the girl's emerald eyes teared up slightly, but she ran a hand through her auburn hair and gave a slight smile. Draco felt his heartbeat speed up.
Dumbledore continued. "She has been placed in Gryffindor." All the Gryffindors cheered. Draco felt his heart plummet. His father would kill him if he knew that Draco was attracted to a Gryffindor.
Meanwhile, at the Gryffindor table...
"Hullo!" Yelled Fred or George, nobody could tell which at the moment. Too much excitement.
Ron rolled his eyes, and Hermione smiled encouragingly at the slender, pale girl before them. "So, you're from Ireland? That's pretty interesting. Most of us here are only part of some other blood. Like half Irish or half Welsh. You know."
Riya half-heard the welcomes of the enthusiastic Gryffindors, and attempted a smile, while her grass-hued eyes scanned the room for the pair of silvery ones she'd seen upon her earlier. And she found them. At the Slytherin table, a slim boy with silver-white hair and silver eyes was watching her. He was handsome, quite good-looking, she thought, if he'd just wipe that smirking scowl off his pale face. She wondered who he was.
Ginny, following Riya's line of vision, whispered. "That's Draco Malfoy. Harry's worst enemy-except for You-Know-Who- and a Slytherin...you probably'll want to stay away from HIM."
Riya simply gave a smile and a nod to the hyper redhead, thinking to herself,'Enemy? Stay away from him? But...to me, he just looks rather...lonely...Yes, decidedly lonely.' She thought for a moment, and hoped that she'd have a class with him, to become better acquainted, perhaps. She grinned inwardly at the thought. She was willing to bet that he was nicer than he seemed.
Draco realized, his heartbeat speeding up slightly, that he had a class with Riya next! Double Andvanced Potions...
As Riya stepped into the room with the rest of the Gryffindors, her heartbeat sped up as a silver-blonde head caught her eye. She wanted to say hello, but the hate-filled glances her fellows threw the Slytherins told her she'd better not-just yet. However, she was in luck-Snape, the Potions teacher, was apparently acting oddly. He was being particularly nice, even to the point of ignoring several Gryffindor mistakes! To Riya's delight, the Gryffindors were so worked up over this unusual behavior that they were clustered in groups, heated discussions speculating reasons for this oddity so absorbing them that they didn't even blink an eye when Riya walked over to Draco's table.
"Hi! I saw you earlier in the Great Hall...Your name is Draco Malfoy, right? I saw you watching me... Why were you watching me?" She asked, smiling at him.
Draco's eyes widened slightly, and his brain went into overdrive, heartrate speeding up slightly. His brain ran through answers he could give. 'Well,I can't just say what I feel, can I? Imagine the look on everyone's face if I said what I feel! I can see myself, 'Well, I was watching you because I thought you were beautiful, and I'd love to snog you, but my father would kill me if he knew that I even considered snogging a Gryffindor, so I just watched you instead.' He opened his mouth, but, before he could say something witty, he spilled all of the bat's blood down his robes. Flushing brightly, he realized he had caused all of Gryffindor to look at him-and the looks weren't pretty.
In all the new commotion going on, Riya slipped away, giving Draco a small smile before anyone could see, and pretending she'd never been over there to begin with.
However, her hopes of not being confronted about it were dashed when, that evening, Ginny confronted Riya right in front of the Portrait of the Fat Lady.
"Were you associating with Draco Malfoy in Double Potions? It's all over the school! And-He's Harry's ENEMY! Really...you aren't being very Gryffindor-like..." She gave Riya a I-Hope-It's-Just-A-Rumor sort of look.
Riya sighed. "Yes, I was talking to him. And he's Harry's RIVAL, not enemy, Ginny...there's a difference." At Ginny's appalled look, she rolled her eyes slightly. "If you MUST know, I think he looks very lonely. I only want to be friends, Ginny, and..."
She was cut off by laughter from Ginny." L-Lonely? Draco'd kill you if he knew you thought he was lonely! Just...take my word for it...We're friends, right? I don't want you to get hurt, and Draco's famous for hurting..." Ginny turned and entered the Gryffindor Common Room.
Riya sighed. She didn't care what people thought, she was going to be Draco's friend if it killed her. She turned, whispered the password, and went into the Common Room after Ginny.
After Riya left, Draco stepped softly out from the shadows. 'She...thinks I am lonely? Am I lonely? Even If I am, father will kill me if I so much as look at her with anything other than a sneer and hard eyes...' Confused about his emotions and his loyalty to his father, he walked towards his own Common Room, realizing that he was doing something his father would disown him-or worse-for...falling for a Gryffindor, someone against the Master his father served...
Elsewhere, another confused person wandered the Halls of Hogwarts. A tall, slender woman with long firey hair and ocean-blue eyes stepped uncertainly up to the door of Remus Lupin's office. Lupin had been the Defense Against The Dark Arts teacher since the year before, when Dumbledore had called him back to the school. She smoothed her gossamer, shimmery green robes, then softly, knocked at the door. It was opened almost immediately by Lupin. Had any of his students seen him, they would have been stunned. His hair was carefully combed, and instead of the rather shabby teacher's robes he normally wore, he was resplendent in deep crimson robes of a velveteen material. He looked younger, but nervousness played across his features.
"A-Aleia...you came!" He nearly whispered, as if amazed.
"Remus...Did you really think I wouldn't? Simply because I was a Sltherin and you a Gryffindor in our Hogwarts days, doesn't mean I didn't care for you." Tears welled in her eyes, sparkling in the flickering light.
The nervousness vanished from Remus's voice and expression. Suddenly, he reached out and embraced the woman.
She smiled and hugged him back, eyes closing, tears splashing down her cheeks onto the stone floor.
"They couldn't make me stop loving you, for all that my parents hated Gryffindors, especially you...They never could stop me...and I am grown, now, Remus. They can never stop me now." She whispered.
He nodded, and stroked her hair affectionately. "I know. Nobody can stop us ever again, I promise. But...if we don't want some night-wandering students to see us and be somewhat shocked, we'd better go inside."
She grinned and laughed softly. "You are right as always, Remus..." She released him from her grip, but took his hand and allowed him to lead her into his office and shut the door...
Severus Snape stepped quietly out from behind a nearby tapestry. He'd been heading to his office when he'd heard footsteps-Aleia. Aleia...he remembered her well. In Potions, he'd always tried to share a table with her...but he hadn't been blind. Obliviousness hadn't overcome him, and he had seen the way she'd watched the Gryffindor-Remus Lupin. Tonight had proved, yet again, that Remus enjoyed taking away anything he could from Snape. Not that Aleia had ever been Snape's, but her parents had expected her to fall for the studious Slytherin, not the rambunctious, joke-filled Remus Lupin. Not the werewolf. He cursed inwardly, and began to walk back towards his office, anger clouding his own thoughts.
To Be Continued...